Spring Driven Wall Clocks

Separate clock mechanisms drive the wall clock hands for the minutes and hours.
Spring driven wall clocks. The movement can have a pendulum or no pendulum but of course the pendulum is most popular. Early wall dials have an unglazed round painted wooden dial about 38 cm across fixed to a movement that is housed in a wooden box. Antique german mechanical pendulum winding wall clock ra wood quartz rare wooden. It is a spring driven equivalent of the act of parliament clock and owes a debt to the french cartel clock.
Westminster chime clocks quarter hour chime and hour and half hour striking clocks are available. Warranty returns about our clocks shipping information faq chime sounds. True vienna regulators are weight driven clocks although there are some spring driven clocks generally referred to as vienna regulators. Spring driven wall clocks quartz chiming wall clocks see all clocks for sale.
Our wind up wall clocks have a precision brass german movement. Please call me at 574 967 4709 or e mail me at email protected to set up an appointment. Westminster chime clocks quarter hour chime and hour and half hour striking clocks are available. C1900 gustav becker vienna regulator spring driven balcony wall clock serviced.
Wall clock kits may be spring driven or weight driven. A regulator clock usually made of wood is an antique vintage timepiece that is wall mounted and driven by a swinging pendulum. This is page one of two in the spring driven wall clocks gallery containing 22 models. Preceding the application of the principles of the pendulum to clocks a wound spring was developed during the middle of the 15th century to provide the power for a clock.
So fastening it well is very important. To correct a spring driven clocks mantle or wall clock that is bonging the hour when the minute hand gets to 6 o clock instead of 12 o clock just count the bongs take off the minute hand and reinstall it on the clock pointing to 12 o clock then turn the hour hand to the hour you heard the clock bong and its done. Clocks made from the late 18th century onwards have a glazed dial the face silvered from about 1770 to 1820 and made of painted iron thereafter. They always have a hole in the back to fit on a wall hook.
A vienna regulator makes a wonderful addition to your home. There are more spring driven wall clocks in the world than weight driven. Our wind up wall clocks have a precision brass german movement. The weights are not light and it is a lot for a wall to hold.
A hundred years would pass before the traditional weights that provided the power for a clock would be challenged by this new power source. In the usa they are called vienna regulators but in the uk among other places they are usually called vienna wall clocks.